Tomb Raider Colossal Collection Volume 2

Tomb Raider Colossal Collection #2

by Dan Jurgens, James Bonny, Joe Jusko (Illustrator)

Lara Croft traverses the globe in pursuit of the world’s rarest treasures—risking her life to keep these artifacts out of the wrong hands. And, of course, for the thrill of the adventure!

Follow Lara Croft as she tracks down the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine in the Arizona desert, seeks the lost city of El Dorado in the jungles of South America, and journeys to New Zealand in search of a five-thousand-year-old mystical amulet. Adventures abound and the rewards are great, but tomb raiding is a dangerous business. Lara must fight deadly adversaries from megalomaniac tycoons to ancient evil spirits in her pursuit of the world’s greatest treasures. Yet there is no peak too perilous or temple too treacherous for Lara Croft!

This colossal, hardcover volume collects issues #0, #1/2, and #35–#50 of the 1999 Top Cow Tomb Raider series, issues #1–#12 of the 2001 Tomb Journeys series, and five one-shot Origins, Epiphany, Takeover, Arabian Nights, and The Greatest Treasure of All.

Features stories from legendary creators Dan Jurgens, Adam Hughes, Tony Daniel, Billy Tan, Andy Park, and many more!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

Kindle Edition

Published November 25, 2025

About the author

Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.

Reviews

[Sebastian Lauterbach · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories dip in quality compared to Tomb Raider Colossal Collection Volume 1, but there is a breathtakingly beautiful standalone graphic novel drawn by Joe Jusko in here, that's almost worth the price of admission.

I really liked Vol. 1, because both the stories and the artwork were on a very high level. This volume collects the remainder of the ongoing series up until #50, a new ongoing 12 issue series and a few standalone graphic novels. I think it's worth taking a closer look at each of these section individually:

#35-50 of the 1999 series: Almost all of this is written by James Bonny and he introduces a rotating cast of friends and antagonists. It's well done and I like most of these characters, as they fit well into the Tomb Raider lore, even though they never reappear again. It doesn't quite reach the heights of the first 25 issues, but it's a good continuation. #50 is written by Dan Slott and is a lot of fun as well and a worthy anniversary issue.

#0-12 of the 2001 series: All of this is written by Fiona Avery and it just sucks. The stories often don't make sense and the artwork is subpar. There is a lot of supernatural elements being used, without even an attempt of any explanation (unlike prior stories), Lara is shoved into a love/hate reincarnation cycle that spans millennia, she is best buddy with the prime minister and she's in love with her deceased mentor that acts selfishly throughout all of his appearances. I wish I could cut this section of this collection.

A collection of standalone stories: I won't go through each of these, but many of these are good or at least entertaining, even the one written by Fiona Avery. As mentioned in the intro, the graphic novel 'The Greates Treasure of All', drawn by Joe Jusko is the highlight of this entire collection. Every panel of this is a poster, that could hang on my wall. For reference, this even surpasses the artwork in Kingdom Come. It helps that the story ain't bad either.

All in all, there's some stinkers in here and the majority isn't as strong as Vol. 1, but it's still very much worth reading.

[Crimson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very middling collection overall. Unlike the first volume, the stories in this book were weak in the first half (or two thirds) and better toward the end. However, the Joe Jusko fully painted comic was completely worth it. The story was fun and the art jaw-dropping. I couldn't say that about many of the other stories in this collection.

There was a short prose story at the end, a so called "book." However, I did not read it because I can't stand present tense narration (e.g., I go to the door, open it, and look inside. I say hello.... ugh) It's just an immediate turn-off and once I realized the whole story was written that way, I ditched it.

I'd like to see the manga included in the back completed. That had potential, at least from an art style perspective. It didn't have narration or dialog, making me wonder why they bothered to stick it in here at all. I guess it's nice to have it if you're a die-hard collector.

I'm not sorry I read volume two, but I won't continue to volume three.